Everton Transfer Banter 4

26 Sep 2026 17:17:40
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Bournemouth v Liverpool - A Quick Liverpool Perspective

26 Sep 2026 16:38:49
Good to see Goodison Park being used to raise cash for the Homeless this afternoon on ch 5 at 4-45 pm.

26 Sep 2026 16:46:33
Strong Team out, Tim Cahill Captain good old days.

26 Sep 2026 20:03:46
Great fun to watch and baines still better than Mikey haha enjoyed going back there.

27 Sep 2026 12:54:55
It was a great afternoon back at Goodison, made me a little emotional to be honest.

27 Sep 2026 18:07:40
Think someone has been feeding the Yak a little to much, lad missed an absolute sitter.?.

26 Sep 2026 12:07:19
If city are relegated, and now that seems almost inevitable, could they avoid the financial consequences, by going bankrupt.
So that, no club, now player, or even the Premier League, could pursue them for compensation.
If put down to the forth level, they could do what Rangers did in Scotland, and declare them selves as a new entity.

26 Sep 2026 13:37:29
Why is it inevitable?

26 Sep 2026 14:12:35
Not sure anything is inevitable when it comes to the Premiership. What I would say is I can't see City getting relegated.

26 Sep 2026 14:20:34
They will get a ban from Europe for a couple years and a fine, watch this space, there will be no points for them to be religated trust me, the premiership won't want there baby weakened by one of the elite getting religated, all the point deductions are for the likes of us so we can't catch them up, you only have to see what they did to chelsea, NOTHING, to no the outcome.

26 Sep 2026 14:42:49
They've broken Premier League rules and so the punishment should impact their involvement in the Premier League.
However large the points deduction, it would only see them go down to the Championship.
Transfer bans could be issued too, but they've invested heavily in great youth players in preparation for this outcome.


The compensation claims are another thing altogether. If the Premier League agree that teams all have a claim, then yes, I'd expect them to declare bankruptcy and begin life lower down the divisions.

26 Sep 2026 15:02:32
They should be demoted to the lowest league same as what happened to Glasgow Rangers.

26 Sep 2026 15:16:35
I can see them getting a points deduction significant enough to confine them to relegation. I don't think they can be put any lower than that as it's a Premier League issue which might mean that outside of the natural relegation path there's little any other league can do to accommodate.


My ire is when a club fails to admit it's brazen conduct despite other clubs like ourselves NF and Leicester complying.
If there was a way to boot them down further then I'd be all for it! Because they are cheats and there's no getting away from that fact.

26 Sep 2026 15:23:49
And considering the mess the Burnley compensation could make for this situation, don't be surprised if our appeal is successful.

26 Sep 2026 17:02:20
If they do what they did to Rangers then City will just be back in a few seasons.

They have cheated the system, gained a hell of a lot of money and status, built a huge infrastructure with a world class academy and an international revenue stream which means they will still bring in hundreds of millions.

There is no punishment they can give to set them back to before they broke the rules. They can take away their titles, give them a huge points deduction, kick them out the footballing pyramid and fine them into bankruptcy but it won't make a difference; the damage has been done.

27 Sep 2026 09:41:59
They will have to relegate City and also have other severe penalties attatched. Nothing to do with doing the right thing but if you want to win back confidence with regulators, investors and sponsorships, then you have to clean house. People won't invest in the Premier League if you can get away with corruption and sponsors won't want their name associated with it either. Plus we also have the new TV deal coming soon which will be possibly damaged by City.

This is a mess. The EPL should have dealt with this years ago and due to their delay, they look incompetent. They now have the gov down their throats and the reason Chelsea, Forrest and us got punished was because they were turning their gaze towards the league.

There is more pain to come from all this and there are also other clubs who are going through a process similar to City in the background that haven't been brought up yet.

26 Sep 2026 08:38:36
“Aguerooooooh f***!”

26 Sep 2026 14:38:54
Even with the best layers, crooks finally go to jail, imo, city will get relegated, just a question of to which league, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th.

26 Sep 2026 07:39:02
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26 Sep 2026 00:21:39
There are couple of things I would pursue. everyone in league could sue. here's a big kicker dicky masters made us pay Burnley but I would counter sue saying how can you make us pay something as it's rules but by your own admission league didn't follow it's own rules because city got found out for not complying with league so in my book city would not be in this mess if league had followed rules and punished city at the time.

what will happen is dicky masters will pretend to fall on sword and admit fault with a multi pound handjob I mean hand out and we will be no better off.

26 Sep 2026 10:53:24
I'm glad City did what they did. It highlights that the rules are the only thing that stop teams competing. They have spent the same as those teams that are always in and around them. To me that sounds like an even playing field, and the trophies show that they simply spent better than the others.

In 2013, when the £105m overspend was first discussed, it sounded reasonable. Wages and transfer fees have gone mad since then but it hasn't changed. I wouldn't be surprised if the top teams planned that to limit the progress others could make.

25 Sep 2026 18:05:38
Now city have been found guilty look at all the scrambling around to claim rules say clubs can't claim. But they have shot themselves in the foot by us paying Burnley. so clubs will want compensation for money they missed out on in league and Europe. how they have screwed up by making us pay ???.

25 Sep 2026 20:34:11
Maybe ManU can buy a new stadium on a fire sale from National League North City.

26 Sep 2026 10:51:49
Manu are over a billion in dept city and chelsea both found to be corrupt spurs will probably get relegated this season the sky 6 aren't looking to hot at the moment would be best if them 6 disappeared into the super league the tried and failed miserably at.

25 Sep 2026 15:51:00
The FA have announced they will not fine Everton for the Man City charges. They have decided to permanently appoint Stuart Atwell as our VAR ref, because they realise it will cost us more.

25 Sep 2026 15:07:22
Man City found guilty of all but 1 of the charges which 114 in total! This should be interesting to hear what punishment they receive grab me the popcorn someone ??.

25 Sep 2026 15:23:53
I look forward to that Elvis mate.

25 Sep 2026 15:26:51
The PL have looked at all the charges at City and have concluded that Everton are to be docked another 10 points.

On the upside one of the cleaners at Goodison has just found the Arteta money.

25 Sep 2026 15:28:28
Get ready for numerous clubs to start proceedings against them too.

25 Sep 2026 15:33:47

This the can of worms that the Burnley fine on us has now opened Optimum!



At least that claim was “we could have stayed up if it wasn’t for you.”



This has so many connotations: premier league positions each year, win money for goodness knows how many trophies they’ve won over this period.



They are gonna be well up the s*** now.

25 Sep 2026 15:37:07
Lol at last some signs of Karma; however, only when they are tunnelling out the basement of the football pyramid etc.

25 Sep 2026 16:02:43
I thought SSN would be one of the first to report on this but their breaking news is to do with Tuchel and his squad. Strange that! It's been the biggest story in English football for the last few years but they haven't really acknowledged this news yet.

25 Sep 2026 16:19:56
Right then, so we pursue our £35m paid to Burnley first and foremost? If we'd been one place higher Burnley wouldn't have had a case against us - fact, full stop. Then, like everybody else, we'd be able to pursue a decade of lost prize money (and European qualification where applicable) .

The independent panel set the precedent, it was to our detriment initially but now without corruption would be to our significant benefit.

25 Sep 2026 20:33:58
So City is only "mostly" guilty.

25 Sep 2026 21:16:21
Watch them get a fine and a slap on the wrist.

Chelsea had 47 charges didn't they? Look how they weee treated.

25 Sep 2026 23:42:51
100% BR2. World record fine and nothing else. Anything else then it's the biggest can of worms ever opened based on our Burnley case. Goodbye football as we know it!

26 Sep 2026 08:28:33
Think football changed when the billionaires bought clubs in the late 90s/2000s. We will never know the skeletons in United, Liverpool or Spurs' closets.

It's criminal that Chelsea got away with it. Just waiting to see how they bend the rules for city now. The whole 'Chelsea complied with investigation' and 'they are now under new ownership' hypocrisy won't work for City.

Regardless of what punishment happens, they have now got the infrastructure to return to the top table within a few seasons (if they get the harshest punishment) .

The Premier League had a chance to sort things with Chelsea and they chose not to. Let's see what they do with City.

{Ed025's Note - i think the market for brown envelopes will go through the roof BR..

26 Sep 2026 11:47:50
Pep said he'd leave if he discovered he'd been lied to over this issue. has anyone seen him in their dugout lately?

UTFT NSNO ? ? ?.

26 Sep 2026 23:00:45
Our financial indiscretions, compared to city's actions, ours is like taking 50p out of the petty cash tin for an extra packet of biscuits, their is more like the Great train robbery. The situation we were in at the time might have seen us relegated, go into administration, then have to sell hill Dickinson, and rent it back.

For one, minor offence. If there is any justice, they must be kicked out of the league, and not allowed back for a minimum of 3 years.

26 Sep 2026 11:31:10
Hope they bring in a regulator to prevent such corruption but if they did, it would surface somewhere else in the game Ed.

{Ed025's Note - i have no faith that it would change things BR, they tried that with the water companies mate and look how that turned out, where there is that amount of money involved you will always get corruption im afraid..

25 Sep 2026 14:34:31
See we are in the process of hiring Lawrence Rabinowitz who represented us successfully against a 10 point penalty for a PSR breach, he will now go against Burnley in our appeal which is due to be heard shortly, happy days.